Yo!
Well uh, here we are again. Welcome to
Nonsense and welcome to our imminent
future. If you’re reading this, I’m amazed
you’re paying attention to us, but you must
be procrastinating considering we’re literally
putting this out all but a week before the
semester ends. But, you know, good for you,
and thanks, and all that. Forreal. This time
we’re getting people who walk up to our table
and take our shit rather like normal people
than us having to powerslide/power-lunge
it towards you. That means a lot. It really
means the world to us.
And shit, this semester was hell. It was
definitely a feeling amongst the entire club,
but somehow we managed to get through.
Especially us, who if you don’t know are
Ariel Leal and Ashley Vernola. This hell
semester being over marks our first semester
as Editors-in-Chief coming to a stark end.
How the hell did we manage that? How
the hell did we manage to put out three
issues that people seem to actually enjoy?
(Which seriously, fellas. We’ll never not
appreciate that.) How did we manage to end
up weeks behind schedule even after all the
late nights we spent in the upstairs part of
the Student Center last spring planning out
SCHEDULES??? Jebus Chrys.
Nonsense Gets Drafted originated from a

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frantic hold on a theme that we pushed away
at the beginning of the semester because we
didn’t feel the freshmen would cling to it as
much as they did. But after an issue under
their belts, here they are, being featured
quite a bit throughout this issue. It attracted
veteran members too, as you can see, so thank
you to Jordan Hopkins, our new Assistant
Head Writer, for pitching it in the first place.
We owe ya one buddy; keep us sane. And
for all of the high concept art within this
issue, we can all thank our new Art Director
Elect(??) [is that the term?] Victoria Jenkins
for providing a steady source of good ass
art. This was an issue that came together
very very quickly -- almost too quickly. We
literally almost tried to scrap it, but we stuck
with it anyway, and here it is! We put this shit
together in like maybe three weeks so that we
had it just before the end of the semester. And
damn did we do it good.
You know, originally, we were gonna call
this thing Nonsense Goes to War but we didn’t
want to predict the future twice (Election
Issue anyone? They who shall not be named)
but we figure Drafted gave us more room,
once we got past most of the punny things.
This issue holds weight too because it’s
the last time you’ll see our beloved Brenna
Lily, Trevor Parrish, and Joseph Kolb in
the flesh (They shall be a ghost upon the
future of Nonsense). Whomst will supply
us with premium content? Whomst will be
the supporter of our morality? Whomst will
be handsome and also an art? More on that
in our next issue (so tune in next
time. Whenever the fuck
that’ll be). On the real,
we’ll miss you guys a lot
and shit absolutely will
not be the same without
you but we’ll carry on
in your honor. That’s the
thing about war, there’s lots
of like...honor and courage
and bravery and stuff in it. It
never changes too, I think. A
wise man (Ron Perlman) said
that once.

Anyway, damn...the last three months
have been fuckin wild and we’ve gotten
a lot of really good eggs (freshmen and
newcomers) and we couldn’t be happier to
have them. Thanks to all of your support
we finally bought the entire Jackbox Game
collection and that’s fuckin rad. Things are
definitely different than what they used
to be, but we can only see smooth sailing
ahead and we hope that next semester
proves to be just as successful, if not more
so, as this one. Princeton: full speed ahead,
am I right? Thank you all for everything.
We said it in the beginning of the semester,
we say it every morning, every night, every
afternoon (and it’s so true) but we love you.
We really do.
Also BONUS CONTENT: Leal Team Six,
War (The Band), some of us watched Marvel
Netflix’s The Punisher and that’s about war
kinda, Fallout joke, another Fallout joke,
rising political climate (and also tensions
as well), consider this: gun. , something
about communism, war is bad, Saving Ryan’s
Privates, Full Metal Jacket, ‘Nam (XD), draft
beer, draft punk, go to the writing center
with your drafts, draft (like wind), drafting
(like cars and trucks), sports drafts, giraffe,
ACAB? ACAB. Twitter draft: Name jeff.
Love,
Ashley and Ariel